The Czech Minister of Regional Development, Klára Dostálová, has praised ArchaeoMontan 2018 in a press release as outstanding example of successful cross-border cooperation. She refers to the opening of a information centre in the town of Krupka. The centre is hosted in a building protected as monument which was refurbished with project funds.... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
After two years of construction the new Info Centre of the Mining Landscape of Krupka opened its doors on 14 March 2018. The info centre is hosted in a historic building which was refurbished within the „ArchaeoMontan 2018“ project. The building now hosts spaces for exhibitions and events as well as the town’s tourist information. One can... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
When the Monitoring Committee of the cross-border INTERREG cooperation programme between Poland and Saxony 2014-2020 met for the 8th time on February 27, 2018, its members took the decision to award funding from the programme for the project "Science as Adventure" that has been elaborated by core-consult. The project will be implemented in the... read more
Topic: Cultural heritageThe Archaeological Heritage Office of Saxony will host the international conference „The Ore Mountains in the focus of mountain archaeology”. The conference is the final event of the ArchaeoMontan 2018 project that terminates in summer. The event takes place on 23 and 24 August 2018 in Dippoldiswalde, Germany.... read more
Topic: Cultural heritageShort before the end of 2017 constructions in Krupka (CZ) were finished and a refurbished building is now ready to get equipped to host an info-centre about the mining cultural landscape of the Ore Mountains. Meanwhile the exhibition to be hosted in a new museum in nearby Dippoldiswalde (DE) takes form as most design concepts were finalised. The... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
On December 4 and 5, partners of the cross-border projects ArchaeoMontan 2018 and "Our World Heritage" met at Freiberg (DE) to coordinate the project realisation. For ArchaeoMontan 2018, the meeting was mainly used to plan the final activities of the project which terminates in August 2018. Partners of "Our World Heritage" in turn have only begun... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
On the 26th and 27th of July the kick-off meeting of the VirtualArch project took place. The partners from 8 different European countries met in Prague to to get to know each other, to plan the first tasks as well as to deepen the management issues of the project. The main aim of the project is to find a strategy for using visualised... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
More than 100 persons participated last Thursday and Friday at the international conference Krušná krajina – Erz(gebirgs)landschaft – Ore Landscape in the Czech city of Kadaň. The event was used to present the first results of the cross-border project investigating medieval mining in the Ore Mountains.... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
core-consult has been successful with two applications in the second round of the INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE programme. Virtual Arch, led by the State Office for Archeology Saxony, will deal with new opportunities to use digital technologies (e.g. virtual reality) to visualise hidden cultural heritage. In the second project, SubNodes, the role of... read more
Topic: Cultural heritageWhen the ArchaeoMontan 2018 work group met on 21/11/2016 at Freiberg, partners were reporting a number of new archeological discoveries that were made in recent weeks. While Czech partners were able to prove the vast extension of the abandoned former medieval miners’ town near Kremsiger, a previously unknown system of mines was discovered below... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage